FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 16, 2007
Contact: Joshua Hollis
(662) 329-7119

Events planned for Women’s Health Awareness Week

COLUMBUS, Miss. – Mississippi University for Women’s Master of Science in Health Education Degree Program and Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle are sponsoring several luncheon presentations to correspond with Women’s Health Awareness Week.

On Tuesday, Oct. 23, dermatologist Bethany Hairston will lead the seminar “Getting in Touch with Your Skin.” The first 64 tickets are free but must be reserved in advance. The luncheon begins at 11:30 a.m., while the presentation begins at 12:10 p.m.

The next day, Wednesday, Oct. 24, motivational speaker Nancy Coey will present her nationally-recognized program “What Would Happen if I DID Remove the Mattress Tag?”

According to Coey’s website (www.nancycoy.com), the program is said to “help you remove self-limiting behaviors and show you the way to step into the jet stream which is waiting for you, only an inch away.”

The program’s main goal is to show attendees how to become “effective women [who] are willing to discard the unnecessary, let go of things that hold them back, and start living with purpose in the present.”

Coey has served as the National Spokesperson for “What Women Put Up With,” sponsored by Spirit of Women and Kimberly-Clark, a keynote speaker at the Snowmass Institute, and a “High Tea” speaker at the Red Hat Society National Convention for three years in a row, among other honors.

The program will begin at 12 p.m., with a book signing immediately following the presentation. The tickets for this event are $10 and must be purchased in advance.

Then on Thursday, Oct. 25, gynecologist Pamela Lacy will present “Cancer – What Women Need to Know.” Like Tuesday’s presentation, the first 64 tickets are free, but must be reserved in advance.

All of the presentations will be held in the Pope Banquet Room in upstairs Hogarth.

For more information and to reserve tickets, call the Health and Kinesiology Department at 329-7225.